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  • Doing, Seeing; Seeing, Doing

    by Leon van Schaik ...
    For architect and educator Leon van Schaik, the way we understand our world is not an abstract consideration, but deeply rooted in physical experience. Our family houses and places of work, the gardens we have played and rested in, the landscapes we have travelled through and those we have come to call home-all of these inflect what van Schaik describes as our spatial intelligence. For better or ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Practical Poetics in Architecture

    by Leon van Schaik ...
    Series series Architectural Design Primer
    Integrate poetics into real-world spaces by bringing theory down to earthPractical Poetics in Architecture takes poetics out of the theory class and into the design studio, showing architects how the atmospheric and experiential qualities of built structures can be intentionally considered and planned. With an emphasis on analysing and explaining the sensibility of poetics at work in designing and ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Procuring Innovative Architecture

    by Leon van Schaik, Geoffrey London ...
    The case studies in this book describe how clients’ promotion of innovative communities of practice has led to important collections of architectural works. The book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of their approaches. Architects and clients will understand what to look for as they construct their careers and their portfolios with innovation as a goal.It is taken for granted nowadays ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Suburbia Reimagined

    Ageing and Increasing Populations in the Low-Rise City

    by Leon van Schaik, Nigel Bertram ...
    Worldwide, more and more people are living in cities, with suburbs conceived as appendages to the city, rather than being part of the city system, which is densely populated and offers a full range of services. But suburbs are not the city spread too thin, and in fact hold potential for a lived complexity as satisfying as that assumed to be available in inner cities. Just as the ecological ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • By Practice, by Invitation

    Design Practice Research in Architecture and Design at RMIT, 1986-2011

    Edited by Leon van Schaik, Anna Johnson ...
    Design Practice Research at RMIT University is a longstanding program of research into what venturous designers actually do when they design. It is probably the most enduring and sustained body of research of its kind: empirical, evidence-based and surfacing evidence about design practice. This first Pink Book documents some of its past achievements. It is probably the most enduring and sustained ... Read more

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  • Making

    Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture

    by Tim Ingold ...
    Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way that has never been attempted before. In a radical departure from conventional studies that treat art ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Paper

    An Elegy

    by Ian Sansom ...
    From the author of The Bad Book Affair comes a witty, personal, and entertaining meditation on the history and significance of paper—an international cultural study and a series of personal reflections on the meaning of this essential product.Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost.Paper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Children's Picturebooks Second Edition

    The Art of Visual Storytelling

    by Martin Salisbury, Morag Styles ...
    Children’s picturebooks are the very first books we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? This revised edition of a bestselling title carries invaluable insight into a highly productive, dynamic sector of the publishing world. Featuring interviews with leading illustrators and publishers ... Read more

    Was $4.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Henry Moore: On Being a Sculptor

    by Henry Moore ...
    Series Book 2 - Artist's Writings
    Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986) was arguably the most influential British sculptor of the twentieth century. Brought up in Castleford in Yorkshire, Moore ended his life completing commissions for large-scale public sculptures in countries around the world. The scale of Moore's success in later life has tended to obscure the radical nature of his achievement. Rejecting the influence of his teachers ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Signs and Wonders

    Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss

    by Delia Falconer ...
    **Winner of the 2022 Nib Literary Awards.Chosen as a 2021 ‘Book of the Year’ in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Book Review.**The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the ... Read more

    $12.27 USD

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  • Drawing

    The Purpose

    Edited by Leo Duff, Phil Sawdon ...
    Leo Duff is an illustrator, exhibitor of freelance illustration work, and the Head of MA in Drawing as Process at the University of Kingston.Phil Sawdon is learning and teaching coordinator at Loughborough University School of Art and Design. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Traces Of Peter Rice

    Edited by Kevin Barry ...
    Lilliput Press is delighted to be reissuing Traces of Peter Rice for the first time in paperback. This book is a collaborative enterprise, British, French and Irish, representing the countries where Peter Rice passed most of his life and the cultures that formed him. These essays and cameos range widely across his career and legacy. Family, friends, scholars and colleagues write about his work, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus